"On May 1998, a villa in Nairobi was purchased by one of the bombers to enable a bomb to be built in the garage. Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan purchased a beige Toyota Dyna truck in Nairobi and a 1987 Nissan Atlas refrigeration truck in Dar es Salaam. Six metal bars were used to form a 'cage' on the back of the Atlas to accommodate the bomb."

"In June 1998, KK Mohamed rented House 213 in the Illala district of Dar es Salaam . . . A white Suzuki Samurai was used to haul bomb components hidden in rice sacks, to House 213."

"In both Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Mohammed Odeh supervised construction of two very large, 2,000-pound (900 kg) destructive devices. The Nairobi bomb was made of 400 to 50 500 cylinders of TNT (about the size of drink cans), ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder and detonating cord . . . The Dar es Salaam bomb was of slightly different construction: the TNT was attached to fifteen oxygen tanks and gas canisters, and was surrounded with four bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and some sand bags to tamp and direct the blast."

"Al Qaeda funded a number of terrorist operations, including the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa (which cost approximately $10,000)."